BAM! Scheduled Tasks

Awesome new feature that makes BOINC even more configurable and manageable for those lucky enough to have enough power at their disposal for configuration and management to be a chore

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With this newest BAM! feature you can schedule tasks to be executed on your groups or hosts when certain thresholds are reached.

Triggers are having a certain amount of work from a project on your host, reaching a certain amount of credit in a project or simply on time.

A task can set projects on the host to attach/detach, suspend/resume, no new work, delayed detach and abort not started work.

You can for example suspend all projects on a host when a challenge starts (except the challenge project of course), switch your host-group to a new project when you have reached your credit target or set all projects to no new work when your favorite project has work and resume them when this project runs out of work.

You can find the page to manage the tasks in your BAM! menu.

So as an example, I have a personal target of reaching 100K in as many projects as possible. Previously it was a bit of a juggling act trying to remember what was dishing out work, what was attached to what exactly. Now I can set a task and have the machines detach once I reach 100K.

I don't have as big a farm as I used to (though I have more power now than when I did have a home farm ) but for those who do have lots, this rocks.

Okay I took a closer look at this and I appear to be missing something. I can set a trigger so that when Correlizer on my work machines has less than 300 seconds of work left, but I cannot figure out what to tell it to do once that trigger is met. Could use some help here.

Ok, so once you've created a trigger and saved it, you can then create a setting for this trigger. Settings can be one of five values - Attach, Suspend, No New Work, Delayed Detach or Abort Not Started Work and you also choose the project to apply this to.

So, I have a task for SLinCa, that when I reach 100K credit in it, it will do a delayed attach. I can add multiple settings as well, so I could get it to add another project as well.

What is it you are trying to do when Correlizer has less than 300 seconds of work left? Get more? Don't really see a way of doing that I'm afraid. That's more of a BOINC client buffer issue.